Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions

Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department plans to take to support the decarbonisation of the UK steel industry between now and 2023 ahead of the Clean Steel Fund’s allocation.

Lee Rowley: The Department announced the Clean Steel Fund (CSF) in 2019 and it is currently being designed and developed. Other schemes are available to support the steel sector which are live now, including the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF). Through grant funding, the IETF can support energy efficiency upgrades and decarbonisation engineering studies, which are needed to prepare the sector for more ambitious decarbonisation schemes in the future.